Example sentences of "[art] [noun] over [pos pn] head [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
| 2 | How it kept the roof over their heads as well as helping the community . |
| 3 | The patient pulls the sweater over his head and then puts the unaffected arm into its sleeve . |
| 4 | She pulled the duvet over her head and ignored it . |
| 5 | All she wanted to do today , however , was get into bed , pull the covers over her head and hope the world would go away . |
| 6 | A strong wind chased the rain over their heads and away as they approached , and the trees tossing beside the walls made the outline of the huge house appear to tremble , as if it might roll over and crush all the homes of the people who depended on it . |
| 7 | She pulled the towel over her head and had another weep — a good one this time to get it out of her system . |
| 8 | Closely marked , he suddenly hooked the ball over his head and ran free to slip the ball between Paul Sansome 's legs . |
| 9 | Rising from the toilet , she pulls the nightdress over her head and steps into the bath , not first pulling the chain of the toilet because that would affect the temperature of the water coming through the showerhead on the end of its flexible tube , with which she now hoses herself down . |
| 10 | She put the chain over his head and tucked the medal under his shirt . |
| 11 | As swiftly as she could she dropped the dress over her head and wriggled into it — only to emerge from its temporary darkness to see Luke Hunter 's eyes upon her , and a look of mocking appreciation on his face . |
| 12 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 13 | The people she would have to deal with in the London offices , paved with razor wire , rose up before her grotesquely and she would pull the sheets over her head and moan : ‘ I do n't want to get up — ever again ! ’ |
| 14 | Frick and the others slipped the protectors over their heads and turned towards the table . |
| 15 | Convulsively , Edward jerked the garments over his head and discarded them . |
| 16 | I pulled the sheet over my head and tried not to piece their words into sentences I would not want to hear . |
| 17 | The small man hefted the shaft over his head and brought it down on Keith with the full force that his frame could muster . |
| 18 | Owen had closed in behind him and flung a cloak over his head and shoulders , and twisted the skirts of it tight round his body and arms . |
| 19 | His mother Kathleen told an industrial tribunal : ‘ The postmen put a sack over his head and threatened to post him to Hull . |
| 20 | She had pulled a stocking over her head and threatened a cashier with a toy cowboy gun . |
| 21 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 22 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 23 | just throw a blanket over my head and pretend I was a budgie . |
| 24 | Well in one they 've got a roof over their head and in the other they have n't , I would 've thought that was a rather major difference . |
| 25 | ‘ She 'll have a roof over her head as long as I 'm above ground , ’ he responded aggressively . |
| 26 | The fact is I did take it out once or twice , determined to do something with it , but other things , like earning enough to keep a roof over our heads and send the children to decent schools , always seemed to intervene . |
| 27 | We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras . |
| 28 | The contrast between his treatment of Morpurgo — the occasional condescending coin — and Dysart 's — a roof over his head and some honest employment — was obviously lost on him . |
| 29 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 30 | It 's impossible to start studying seriously until you 've found a roof over your head that suits your needs and allows a clear head for studying . |